Built by a dad.
Powered by 30 years of cyber.
Cyber Elementary started with one simple question from the dinner table — and a realization that the world's best cybersecurity training had never been written for kids.
It started at the dinner table.
My kids were eight and ten years old when I realized I had a problem. I'd spent three decades in cybersecurity — National Security Agency, USCENTCOM, enterprise managed security programs — and I could brief a Fortune 500 board on threat intelligence. But when my own children sat down at a screen, I didn't have a good answer for how to teach them to stay safe.
I looked for the kind of curriculum I'd want them to use. Something rigorous but age-appropriate. Lesson-plan ready. Written as if a real cybersecurity professional — not a children's textbook committee — had put it together. I couldn't find it.
So I wrote it myself.
What started as a lesson plan for our dining room table grew into a full curriculum series — 36 video lessons, graded workbooks for 3rd through 6th grade, and teacher resources designed to drop straight into a classroom. Cyber Elementary is the program I wish had existed when my kids first picked up a device.
30 years of experience, distilled for kids.
A career in cyber gives you pattern recognition that's hard to put into words — you see the attacks, the failures, the human errors that real organizations pay billions trying to prevent. Most of those failures trace back to basic behaviors: clicking the wrong link, trusting the wrong message, sharing too much online.
Those basics are teachable. They're actually easier to learn early, before bad habits form. That insight — earned across a long career and a dinner table full of kids — is what every Cyber Elementary lesson is built on.
The books are published through Baldwin Terney Press, a family publishing house with roots going back three generations. The consulting practice behind the curriculum — Baldwin Terney Consulting — advises enterprise organizations on the same cybersecurity principles these lessons teach.
National Security Agency
Signals intelligence & national-level cyber operations
USCENTCOM / DoD
Joint cyber operations & critical infrastructure protection
Enterprise MSSP
Built & led managed security programs at Kudelski Security & 1898 & Co.
Every kid deserves to grow up cyber-smart.
Cyber Elementary exists because the gap between professional-grade cybersecurity knowledge and what reaches kids is enormous — and completely unnecessary. The lessons are simple. The stakes are real. Let's close that gap together.
Part of something bigger.
Cyber Elementary lives alongside a family of related sites — the publisher, the consulting practice, and the people behind it all.